LAND LOVERS: 7 of Toowoomba's biggest property owners

Tom has been with News Regional Media since 2013, having worked in newsrooms across south-west Queensland. Prior to his appointment at The Chronicle, he was the editor of the Western Star in Roma for 18 months. Growing up in Brisbane, he studied journalism at Queensland University of Technology. Away from work, he is happily in a relationship with his partner Sarah and enjoys playing music with his band in Toowoomba and supporting the Brisbane Broncos.

THEY own more than 3700 hectares in Toowoomba, which is more than five per cent of the entire land in the city.

The Chronicle has crunched the numbers, revealing seven of the biggest landholders in the Garden City.

Information was collected from RP Data based on current holdings in the central Toowoomba area (37 inner and outer-city areas) by known entities of these groups, government departments, businesses and landowners.

THE Toowoomba Regional Council is not just the local government presence in the Garden City, but also one of its majority landholders.

The council holds a wide variety of different land use styles in its portfolio, including aerodromes, parks, light industry, tourist attractions, government buildings, vacant land and units.

The single largest parcel is on Nass Rd in Charlton, which stretches for more than 70 hectares.

Clive Berghofer.Nev Madsen

CLIVE BERGHOFER (JETELD PTY LTD)

Land: 578.8 hectares over 51 properties

BY CLIVE Berghofer's own admission, there isn't much land in Toowoomba that the veteran developer hasn't touched over the course of more than 50 years.

The city's $374 million man still has significant sums across the outskirts of the Garden City that create a collection still coming in at 578 hectares.

Mr Berghofer told The Chronicle this year he still believed he had $200 million worth of undeveloped land in Toowoomba.

While this figure might require more scrutiny, he certainly enjoys some of the largest average lot sizes out of anyone on this list.

His largest parcel is a 77-hectare piece of land on Cabarlah Park Rd in Highfields, a community he continues to subdivide in.

The Pulse Data Centre, by FKG Group.Contributed

FKG GROUP AND RELATED ENTITIES

Land: 100.04 hectares over 12 properties

FKG Group's extraordinary success in the technology industry, culminating in the launch of the Pulse Data Centre earlier this year, can at least be partially attributed to enormous parcels of land in Toowoomba's western areas.

One of the group's bodies, Witmack Industrial, owns nearly 100 hectares in Wellcamp, laying the platform for a massive technology park.